James Hanley wrote on Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 13:32:11 -0400: > I think this is a feature that could also benefit svn checkin, as many > times I'm working on multiple disjoint functions
See 'svn changelist'? > or there is a common config file that is needed for checkout and may > require some tweaks (such as running on simulated hardware, etc) but > usually shouldn't be checked in. > http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#ignore-commit > I would use this feature in both spots of checkin and export if available. > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> wrote: > > $ svn export -x ./test.data -x *.log -x scripts > > ../package-1.0+svn10.tar.gz > > > > Would make an archive content: > > > > ROOT > > | > > + - program.sh I'll note that this is actually *two* feature requests: 1) Add a -x/--exclude flag (I can see the reason for that, if the --excluded files are large. Workaround that works today: use --depth and 'svn ls $URL' to fetch only parts of the tree; may be easier with checkout than with export) 2) Add an "output to tar.gz" mode (off-the-cuff response: why hardcode tar.gz? why not allow zip and tar.bz2 as well?)
